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Organizer Hopes That
For Day Laborers, a New Day
Is Coming Very Soon

By

Miriam Jordan

Updated July 14, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. -- The driver of a black Honda thought he would quickly enlist some guys to load furniture and boxes onto a truck -- until he heard the men wanted $15 an hour. "What? You don't even have papers," the driver told a clutch of Latino day laborers clustered around his car earlier this week. But they stood firm.

"We do hard jobs other people won't do," Luis Cap, a Guatemalan, told the man behind the wheel. "If you want to save money, that's OK. You will have to find other workers."...